FDP on the environment and animal welfare

The FDP wants species protection to focus on whole populations and habitats rather than individual animals, and wants payments to replace compensation land for construction projects. The aim is faster projects and larger-scale conservation measures.

The FDP wants to change nature protection. The whole species should be protected, not each single animal. Builders should pay money instead of finding replacement land. Experts use the money for big nature projects.

Single sightings of species that are not endangered would no longer hold up construction for long. The payments would go into a fund from which experts finance coordinated, connected conservation projects. German environmental standards would be aligned with European ones because, according to the platform, stricter national limits and technical rules lead to products that do not fit other markets. For the circular economy, the FDP favors modern recycling over product bans.

The FDP wants to manage wolf and cormorant populations through hunting and sees hunting as part of species protection. In forestry, it rejects new management rules and interference with property.

The FDP wants hunters to be allowed to hunt wolves and cormorants. This should keep their numbers down. Forest owners should not face new rules. Wood should count as climate-neutral.

The current Federal Forest Act is to stay in place. The FDP considers the EU rule on deforestation-free supply chains unworkable in practice. Converting forests to withstand climate change is to be supported, including with non-native tree species. Wood from sustainable management is to be treated as climate-neutral by law. For fisheries, the FDP seeks a European policy that weighs sustainability, social concerns and economics equally.